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Emylie Howie

Glasgow Clan ice hockey stars brave leg waxing for Paisley woman fighting cancer

Three Glasgow Clan ice hockey stars went to great pains to help a young woman raise money for a cancer charity while she goes through chemotherapy.

The players may need to be tough guys on the ice, but they winced more than a few times when they got their legs waxed yesterday as part of the Clan’s fundraising effort for 20-year-old Alix Maitland.

The student nurse, from Paisley, hadn’t been showing any symptoms and was shocked when doctors gave her the devastating news that the pea-sized lump in her neck was Stage Four Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer that had spread to her neck, chest, spleen and bones.

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